Senior Engineering Manager

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Fulwood, England, United Kingdom

In-Office

Role Overview

As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll need to have both the experience and skills to navigate our complex state of the art facilities whilst also maintaining our older estates, which come with challenges of their own. There’s 172,000 square metres of it, but if you’re up to the challenge, it’s an extremely rewarding role where no two days are the same and you will be part of a fantastic team. You have the opportunity to come in and make a difference through the changes you identify and will be involved in projects and activity which see us safely support future generations to come.

Team Development

To ensure we have capacity, we’ve increased funding to bring in extra Engineers to work with you, so you can develop the team further given our exciting future ahead. We promote and encourage professional development which allows for those with the relevant experience to join us and continue with their career development through education and training.

Responsibilities

You’ll lead our in-house maintenance team with overall responsibility for managing the Engineering Department, ensuring all building services and equipment are compliant with statutory legislation and guidance. Our team consists of Mechanical / Electrical / Plumbing trades supported via Engineering Managers, all of whom are in-house and directly employed NHS staff. We are also supported via external contracts with specialist providers where necessary.

Leadership

Your strong, consistent background will really help here to ensure you can lead and support the team ensuring clear communication, engagement and continued professional development of staff through performance management and training.

Ideal Candidate

This is not a job for the many, but for the right person this job is perfect. Combining your effective skills, experience and attributes to help support the NHS strive for excellence in our services both now and in the future. It goes without saying you’ll need to be able to demonstrate previous experience in planning and managing maintenance of building services in large complex buildings.

Working Hours and Benefits

You will work 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday; though there are on call duties to offer support to on-site staff out of hours. On call payments of approximately x amount and will be in addition to your basic salary. This post comes with all the usual benefits of working within the NHS which includes an excellent pension (14.3% employer contribution) and 27 day holiday entitlement to start.

Contact Information

Try as we might, we just cannot cram everything into one advert, so we really encourage you to get in touch to find out more. Lee Taylor, Assistant Director of Estates really welcomes you to contact him to arrange to come and visit or have an informal chat [email protected]

About Us

We have nearly 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

Development Opportunities

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

Impact and Innovation

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Further Details

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lee Taylor Job title: Lee Taylor, Assistant Director of Estates Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01772 522726